Letters and Papers

Letters

John Adams

• Wythe to Adams, 5 December 1783, in Papers of John Adams Vol. 15, (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977), 396.

George Rogers Clark

• Wythe, George Mason, & Thomas Jefferson to George Rogers Clark, 3 January 1778, in First American West: Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820, (Chicago: Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 2002), images 1-2, available at [1].

Nicholas Cooke

• Wythe, William Ellergy & Committee on Clothing to Nicholas Cooke, 11 October 1776, in Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 5, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 334.

Benjamin Franklin

• Wythe to Franklin, 23 June 1766, in The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 13: January 1, 1766 through December 31, 1766, eds. Leonard W. Labaree et al. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969), 321, available at [2].
• Wythe to Franklin, 6 September 1777, in The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 24: May 1, 1777 through September 30, 1777, eds. William B. Willcox et al. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984), 506, available at [3].

Patrick Henry

• Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, & Francis Lightfoot Lee to Patrick Henry, 17 September 1776, in Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 5, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 190.
• Wythe et al. to Patrick Henry(?), 7 November 1776, in Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 5, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 451.

Samuel Huntington

• Joseph Jones to George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, & Edmund Pendleton (draft), circ. 16? April 1781, in Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 17, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 158.

Thomas Jefferson

• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 5 April 1775, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 355, available at [4].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 6 April 1775, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 356, available at [5].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1776, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 592-93, available at [6].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1776, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 681, available at [7].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1776, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 709, available at [8].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 18 November 1776, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 710-713, available at [9].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 1 November 1778, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 986-87, available at [10].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 1 March 1779, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 1031 available at [11].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 31 December 1781, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 685-87, available at [12].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 10 January 1786, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 44-45, available at [13].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1786, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 271-282, available at [14].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 29 May 1786, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 864, available at [15].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 13 August 1786, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 149-52, available at [16].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 13 December 1786, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 829-30, available at [17].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 22 December 1786, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 867, available at [18].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, January 1787, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 1123, available at [19].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 26 February 1787, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 1263, available at [20].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 6 May 1787, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 349, available at [21].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 September 1787, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 45-54, available at [22].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1788, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 782-83, available at [23].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 17 December 1789, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 47, available at [24].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1790, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 377-80, available at [25].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 13 June 1790, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 573, available at [26].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 31 August 1790, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 1133-34, available at [27].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 10 January 1791, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 458-59, available at [28].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 14 March 1791, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 33-34, available at [29].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 15 June 1792, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 715-18, available at [30].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 12 July 1792, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 971, available at [31].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 24 July 1792, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 996-97, available at [32].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 15 August 1792, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 1046-47, available at [33].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 11 September 1792, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 1128, available at [34].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 26 February 1793, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 919, available at [35].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 17 March 1793, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 1058 available at [36].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 27 April 1793, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 173, available at [37].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 26 May 1793, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 535-36, available at [38].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson & Edmund Randolph, 17 August, 1793, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 218-19, available at [39].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 1 September 1792, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 459, available at [40].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 24 October 1794, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 221, available at [41].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1794, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 227-30, available at [42].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1795, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 402-03, available at [43].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 18 April 1795, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 415, available at [44].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January 1796, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 657-58, available at [45].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 12 January 1796, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 667, available at [46].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 January 1796, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 668-73, available at [47].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 January 1796, 2, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 686, available at [48].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe (including a list of Volumes of the Laws of VA Library), in The James Madison Papers, 1723-1836, (Washington DC: Library of Congress), images 10-15, available at [49].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1796, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 936-37, available at [50].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 8 August, 1796, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 956, available at [51].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 22 January 1797, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 1112, available at [52].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1797, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 1120-21, available at [53].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 29 May 1799, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 970, available at [54].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1800, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 119-20, available at [55].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 28 February 1800, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 125-26, available at [56].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 7 April 1800, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 193-204, available at [57].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1800, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 209, available at [58].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1800, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 232, available at [59].
• Wythe to Jefferson, memorandum correspondence, 7 December 1800, in The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803 Vol. II, ed. David John Mays (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1967), 687-92.
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1800, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 600-03, available at [60].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1801, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 1155, available at [61].
• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 23 June 1801, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 1212, available at [62].
• Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 31 July 1801, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 374-75, available at [63].

Joseph Jones

• Joseph Jones to George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, & Edmund Pendleton (draft), circ. 16? April 1781, in Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 17, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 158.

Richard Henry Lee

• Richard Henry Lee to Wythe, 19 October 1777, in Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 8, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 146.

James Madison

• Madison to Wythe, 15 April 1785, in The Papers of James Madison, Vol. 8, eds. William T Hutchinson & William M. E. Rachal, (University of Chicago Press, 1963), 262-63, also available at The Library of Congress: [64].
• Wythe to Madison, 8 September 1788, in The Papers of James Madison, Vol. 17, (University of Chicago Press, 1963), 528.

George Mason

• Mason to Wythe, 14 June 1777, in The Papers of George Mason 1725-1792 Vol. I, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970), 345.
• George Mason, Thomas Jefferson, & George Wythe to George Rogers Clark, 3 January 1778, in The Papers of George Mason 1725-1792 Vol. I, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970), 409-10.

George Morgan

• Wythe, Lewis Morris & Oliver Wolcott to George Morgan, 11 April 1776, in Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 3, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 651.
• Wythe, James Wilson & Edward Rutledge to George Morgan, 31 May 1776, in Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 4, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 106.

Robert C. Nicholas

• Wythe to Robert C. Nicholas, note, 26 March 1776, in Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 3, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 449.

John Norton

• Wythe to John Norton, 9 May 1768, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 50-51.
• Wythe to John Norton, 15 May 1768, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 51-52.
• Wythe to John Norton, 1 June 1768, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 53.
• Wythe to John Norton, 13 June 1768, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 54.
• Wythe to John Norton, 18 August 1768, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), (including scanned image) 58-59.
• Wythe to John Norton, 3 August 1769, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 101.
• Wythe to John Norton, 7 May 1770, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 133-34.
• Wythe to John Norton, 18 July 1771, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 169.
• Wythe to John Norton, 29 May 1772, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 242-43.
• Wythe to John Norton, 8 September 1772, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 270.
• Wythe to John Norton & Son, 12 December 1772, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 290.

John Hatley Norton

• Wythe to John Hatley Norton, 4 December 1785, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 471-72.
• Wythe to John Hatley Norton, 22 February 1786, John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia, ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 472-73.

John Page

• Wythe, William Ellergy & Committee on Clothing to Nicholas Cooke, 11 October 1776, in Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 5, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 334.

Edmund Pendleton

• Pendleton to Wythe, memorandum, 3 March 1789, in The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803 Vol. II, ed. David John Mays (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1967), 553.

Charles Thomson

• Charles Thomson to Wythe et al., 21 June 1785, in Letters of Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 22, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 470.

James Warren

• Wythe, John Adams & Silas Deane to James Warren, 24 October 1775, in Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 2, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 245.

George Washington

• George Washington to Wythe, 17 January 1774, in George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: Series 5 Financial Papers, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1999), images 180-182, available at [65].
• George Washington to Wythe, 28 August 1793, in George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: Series 2 Letterbooks (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1999), image 139, available at [66].

Nathaniel Woodhull

• Wythe, John Adams & Silas Deane to Nathaniel Woodhull, 19 October 1775, in Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 2, ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 208.

Papers

• “Land Title Opinion,” 15 December 1773, George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: Series 4 General Correspondences, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1999), images 25-27, available at [67].

• Wythe, Edmund Pendleton, et al. to the Virginia Independent Chronicle & the Virginia Gazette and Weekly Advertiser “Resignation of the Judges,” 11 March 1789, in The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803 Vol. II, ed. David John Mays (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1967), 553-54.

• The Last Will and Testament with Codicil of George Wythe, 11 June 1806, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 314-319, available at [68].

• Biographical Notes on George Wythe by Thomas Jefferson, 31 August, 1820, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 217-19, available at [69].